Finally someone who’s willing to stand up for what they believe.

Also soup is goated. Here, try this one. It’s soup flavored.

It’s always good when your heart rate is two numbers.

That sounds kinda fun (and injurious to my body, but I’m okay with that), how do I sign up?

Traitors. Which one? All of them. As the adderall and caffeine fizzle out of our bloodstreams, Traitors is about all we can handle. Traitors US is by far the sloppiest, which makes it my favorite. I’m legitimately jealous of Alan Cummings’ increasingly flamboyant outfits.

The only thing he’s guilty of is bada bing

Inb4 this. Just this. TL;DR I was today years old when I thank you for the gold kind stranger. Whomst.

Thank you!

I tell my students all the time to embrace the flaws in their pieces. You learn a lot from mistakes. And mistakes are neither good nor bad.

I’m excited for you! You’ll have a blast.

“Imagine a less expensive burger”

I know there’s genocides happening and the cost of living is spinning further out of control, but Trump is worried about getting into heaven, sweetie.

… “Board of Peace” — and he refused it.

I’ve noticed LLMs are allergic to “,

The only way I know I’m talking to a human for sure is when I see a .).

I overreact about bad takes about CSA prevention a lot because I worked at a CAC for many years. I wouldn’t say they worded their post poorly. I’d say they worded it problematically. It gives the impression that simply talking to kids about bodily autonomy is a solution to CSA. There’s so much more to it than that.

That’s certainly uh…one way of putting of it. I take issue with a lot of what this poster is saying. I’m sorry, they seem to have some fundamental misunderstanding of child advocacy and consent in general.

unless you want to to teach small kids about a laundry list of sex acts, they’re not going to even recognize many acts of CSA as sexual in nature.

This seems self-contradictory. Abusers employ many behaviors that are not sexual in nature in order facilitate their abuse. Things like gift giving or building trust with families/the community. The poster seems to imply that children wouldn’t be able to recognize these behaviors without a list of sex acts because these behaviors are and aren’t sexual in natural at the same time? I’m not understanding what they’re trying to even say really. I think you’re right that it’s pretty gross framing.

instead, we need to have children who are raised with an expectation of bodily autonomy and who feel comfortable complaining when they’re made or asked to do things they don’t feel comfortable with.

Agreed. Although I’d go further and say that children need to understand everyone has a right to bodily autonomy, not just that we should expect it.

we need children to have the expectation that those complaints will be taken seriously and that they’ll receive backup to make sure situations like that don’t continue.

Ok, I take a little umbrage with this. I’m not saying you should tell kids that aren’t going to believe them. You should never tell a survivor of CSA that. It makes it seem that their experiences would be perceived as unbelievable to safe adults. BUT you SHOULD NOT be telling kids that their “complaints” will be taken seriously. What a weird and dismissive way of framing the disclosure process. You encourage kids to keep disclosing until they get the help they need. Disclosure is a process. It often involves denial and recanting and multiple attempts. Disclosure is something a victim gives, and it takes a ton of fucking courage.

if their desires for bodily autonomy are consistently ignored, how can we expect them to speak out when something confusing and uncomfortable happens with their parent, cousin, or babysitter?

Wow, this is getting pretty close to victim blaming at this point. If someone continues to be abused, it’s not their fault for not recognizing it or not feeling comfortable enough to disclose their abuse. Again, this is why in the world of child advocacy you encourage kids to find safe adults to talk to. You tell them they aren’t doing anything wrong by getting the help they need.

we’ve already taught them that what they feel comfortable with doesn’t matter

I think this poster thinks that by simply teaching kids about bodily autonomy and telling them they should expect to get help will somehow solve CSA. That framing ignores a litany of symptoms of CSA. I think the poster doesn’t understand what abuse can do to someone, how difficult it makes trusting others or one’s own memory or emotions. I get the poster wants a better world, but do some reading about child sexual abuse prevention.

Forget HSR. I’d take R.

Don’t you know that identity politics is everything I don’t like?

Credit where credit is due, a bunch of them were losers who joined the bandwagon of leaving Reddit. A lot of the concerns I saw around that time on Reddit were that the site was becoming “toxic” and “political”. I don’t really think most of the people that left Reddit left because of any principled coherent stance. They perceived the site changing to be more advertiser friendly as a direct attack on their beliefs. Beliefs that 99 times out of 100 were misogynist and/or racist. Those are the losers that made a new home on .world.

One hundred percent. I was on Reddit for a decade and had a curated sub list I aligned with and participated in. When the API changes happened and the app I used shut down, there was no way I was going to download the official app just to see ads and suggested/sponsored content. I took one look at .world and saw that the most redditiest redditors were also flocking there. So I joined Lemmygrad and was extremely happy with my choice.

The funny thing is that I still need to get on Reddit from time to time, and it’s really normie now. Sure it’s lib as ever, but the culture is much, much more mainstream than even a few years ago. That was probably Reddit’s goal, but I think it’s funny that they essentially orchestrated an exodus all their most insufferable users to .world. Going to .world is like a time machine to 2013 r/all.

I love this duel-allegiance rhetoric. If anyone, any American, can be said to not have duel-allegiance, or not have any remaining allegiance to their birth country, it’s the fucking pope.

Is this gonna be like the time people swore putting American cheese ramen was good? I mean, it’s good and all, but I don’t like it. On moral grounds.